The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-09-30

Hox. W. r NoRRIsox, who was in Chi
cago recently, was visited BY number Of
his political friends In regard 70 making
the race for Congress in his own district
next year he said it was . little early to
commence campaigning. but he was rather
inclined to think he would be there when
the time came. OF President Cleveland he
said the indications wherever he had been
were that he was growing stronger all the
time with tho people and would continue to
grow until the next Presidential election
day.
PRESIDENT F. F. LEONARD, OF the Toledo,
Peoria q Western, has filed with the nli-
nois Railroad and Warehouse Commission
an official report OF the Chatsworth acsi-
dent. 1t estimates from the number OF
tickets sold that there were $40 persons on
the train, Of whom eighty were dead. The
number injured was given as Isl, ten OF
whom were employed on the road.
NEW complications were reported to have
arisen at Chicago on the 2lst which were
almost certain to create another passenger
war among the roads running east from
that city.
By natural gas explosion al Oil Center,
Wood County, O., the other night, flowing
oil tanks and machinery were destroyed
and several persons badly burned.
DICK VAUN, who shot Captain Sam Six
killer at Muskogee, l. T., December "a, died
recently of wounds received from an Indian
policeman.
NEAR Purcell, I. T., Q serious train wreck
occurred ON the 2lst. A working train was
run into by light engine. The number OF
killed and injured was thought to be about
fifteen, but nothing definite was known.
HoN. E. B. WAsHBURN, formerly United
States Minister to France, was taken with
congestion OF the brain at Chicago on the
2lst and was in a precarious condition.
A. r. PARSONS, one Of the condemned
Anarchists, has given to the press o
lengthy document, in which he demands
either his freedom or execution.
ANOTHER railway horror on the Chicago,
Rock Island & Pacific almost happened at
Killar, near Peoria, ILL.,, on the 2lst. A
bridge over a chasm fifty feet deep had
been burned out, but the fact was discov-
cred by q foreman. He went one way and
tagged the passenger train while his wife
stopped one the other way.
POLICEMEN found a gas pipe bomb at the
Cottage Grove Avenue car barn, Chicago,
the other morning. 1t was ten inches in
length and two inches in diameter.
P. R. ScorT, JR-, son Of Ex-Governor
Scott, Of Arkansas, reported to the Chicago
police recently that he had been robbed Of
a. 500 in notes and $500 in money.
Rev. ALFRED BEDDINGToN, Baptist
minister, was shot and mortally wounded
by man named Glassmore on the line be-
tween the Chickasaw and Choctaw Nations
recently. The murder was prompted by
jealousy.
The Typographical Union Of Detroit,
Mich, has made demand for nine hours q
day, without any reduction Of wages. The
Printers Association, COM
posed of the ten largest job printing houses
in the city, has issued a circular refusing to
comply.
THE annual convention of the National
Of ex-Prisoners Of War began
in Chicago on the I'D.
A COLD wave struck Abercrombie, MIMI,
on the I'D, the thermometer being only two
above zero.
WILLIAM C. ALBERTsoN, a Chicago bucket
shop owner, has applied for writ Of man
damus to force the Board Of Trade of that
city to give him their quotations.
JOHN KERNAHAN WIS hanged in San
Francisco at noon on the 23d for the MUIR
der of his sister-in-law in October, 1885.
JOLIET merchants deny the stories from
New Haven, Conn.,, regarding iron mer-
chant Wheeler's bogus house in their city.
They say that Wheelcr's agents in Joliet
were a we'll known firm which was dragged
down by him.
ELISHA A. ROBINSON, the Chicago whole
sale grocer who stood in with the Cook
County boodlers, has returned to the
county SIS, 600 as his share of the steals.
FISH Il CoNNELL's Enterprise barb wire
factory, Joliet, Ill, has been destroyed by
fire with all its contents. Loss. $4,000.
]. S. ROBINSON, OF Cincinnati, has been
elected president and l.. c. Hutchinson, of
Detroit, secretary and treasurer Of the Ma
tional Council of Amalgamated Building
Trades.
THE schooner Orkney Lass was thought
to have been lost in Lake Michigan. Some
few days ago the captain refused assist
ance to reach port and the vessel was not
afterward seen.
CHINESE residents of San Francisco had
a remarkable parade on the 23d in honor of
the great idol known as Tan Wong, recent
~ brought from China. One Of the features
Of the parade, besides Tan Wong, was q
huge dragon LIS feet long.
ENGINEER FREEMAN, Of d. s. Ervin's
stone quarry at Yellow Springs, O., was
blown into the air fifty feet and killed by a
boiler explosion the other day.
CAPTAIN JOHN FREER, of the schooner
Marsh, who assisted Boodler McGarigle to
escape to Canada, has been arrested in Chi
cago.
THE SOUTH.
Ten miles west of Fort Worth, Tex, on
the Goth, the Texas & St Louis express was
robbed by masked men, supposed to be
members Of the old gang Of Texas train
robbers. The loss was put at between $,0,-
600 and go, 200, and would have been much
larger if the messenger had not secreted q
large amount while the door was being
forced open.
TIE Louisville (Ky) Commercial Club
gave banquet and reception to the COM
mercial travellers Of that city recently.
Ex-Governor Knott made the principal
speech.
The chemical works and warehouses and
three stores at Elgin, Tex, were destroyed
by fire the other night. Loss, $4,000.
GENERAL WILLIAM PRESTON died at Lex
ington, KY, on the 21st He had been ill
since July. He was to be buried at Louis
vile.